Repetition
If someone frequently creates annoying situations,
And you respond to them continuously all the same,
Each time resulting just in carbon copy aggravations,
Can it be truly said the other person is to blame?
Image
The image that I carefully create,
And nurture to sustain upon exam,
I hope someday to fully replicate,
So it can be exactly what I am.
Maxim No. 1
The challenge I must master to the letter,
Is that sometimes the less I say, the better.
Didn’t Look There
I looked everywhere,
But it was no place,
Except for right there—
In front of my face.
Generosity
The divergence between generous or just cheap
May seem like a significant cost,
But consider the value of what you don’t keep
When through stinginess goodwill is lost.
Criticisms
Which criticisms
Do the most
To bother you?
Those false and spiteful
Or the ones
Which might be true?
Beneficial Lesson
A caring and sensitive
Human being learns—
Don’t trivialize
Someone else’s concerns.
Acceptance
Relationships are courses in which
You should not enroll,
If changing other people is your
Pre-existing goal.
Russel Winick recently started writing poetry after ending a long legal career. He resides in Naperville, Illinois.
The above poems were originally published in the Society of Classical Poets.
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